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| Biljana Manevska, Jasmina Risteska, Sophie Fletcher, Vesna Matevska, Tanja Stankova, Melissa Morrison-Jacobus |
Today we visitied the HERA office and learned about the amazing things they're doing in Skopje and surrounding area. HERA has received grants from the Global Fund for HIV and AIDS, the Open Society Foundation and others to provide HIV counseling and testing to marginalized members of society. HERA's youth center in Skopje, "Sakam de Znam" provides reproductive health, STD and HIV counseling to teens with mental and physical disabilities.
A fantastic HERA service is a mobile gynecology clinic which provides reproductive health screening, counseling and care to women in rural areas of Macedonia. We're exploring ideas for making this van accessible for women with impairments of mobility.
Two other vans of this type are devoted to HIV testing in Skopje.
The champion gynecologist-nurse team delivering care from the clinic-on-wheels is Dr. Snezana Georgieva Janevska and nurse Vesna Dinevska. Our heroines in the field!
Thanks to the incredible hard work and planning of our hosts of Mobility Challenge and HERA, today was a very productive day!
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